No butter, no cream: Vegan rules at French pastry match
AFP | Contestants duking it out at this year's World Pastry Cup in Lyon on Monday had to wrestle with a challenge previously unthinkable in...
Climate change pushing killer whales to migrate north
AFP | Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord. Their favorite...
Facebook has ‘new tools’ against EU election meddling
AFP | Facebook on Monday unveiled new tools to counter online political meddling in the European elections, part of a campaign to answer growing pressure...
Brexit: What is the Irish backstop?
AFP | How to keep the Irish border free-flowing has proved to be the toughest issue to resolve in negotiating Britain's exit from the European...
10,000 ‘red scarf’ protesters march against ‘yellow vest’ violence
AFP | More than 10,000 people wearing red scarves marched through Paris on Sunday in protest at "yellow vest" violence during the anti-government demos that...
France tells firms to look beyond Brexit Britain
AFP | The French government on Friday urged companies to start planning in earnest for Britain to crash out of the European Union without a...
Iran accuses France of ‘destabilising’ region
AFP | Iran has accused France of being a destabilising force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its...
Children of Nazis and their victims share family history to mark Holocaust
AFP | The moment may sound familiar to many; a family gathered around a kitchen table after the death of a parent, taking stock of...
Frustration and sadness as Italy migrant centre closed
AFP | "I found a family here, I worked with the parish priest, I helped with mass, I went to school," said Nigerian Anthony Ehikwe,...
‘The new oil’: Dublin strikes it rich as Europe’s data hub
AFP | A new industrial revolution is underway on the outskirts of Dublin. Fortunes are being made in clusters of anonymous warehouses housing vast data...
Time to ‘get angry’, teen climate activist says in Davos
AFP | Her train journey from Sweden took 32 hours, but Greta Thunberg is not tired. The teenager is dead-set in her mission to persuade...
Trump had hoped to meet Imran Khan at Davos? – Dr. Moeed Pirzada
Moeed Pirzada | World Economic Forum (WEF) top management kept hoping till the very end that Pakistani PM, Imran Khan, may be persuaded to join...